NHRA's Team Kalitta seeking a second, a bit of luck and a tribute in Las
Vegas

Las Vegas, Nev., (Oct. 18, 2005) - NHRA POWERade Drag Racing Series Top Fuel
drivers and Kalitta Motorsports teammates Doug Kalitta, Dave Grubnic and
Scott Kalitta are all anxious to see the flashing bright lights of the famed
Las Vegas strip this weekend in the Nevada desert, but they are all equally
eager, yet uniquely motivated, to see win lights at the end of The Strip at
Las Vegas Motor Speedway at the ACDelco Las Vegas NHRA Nationals, Oct.
20-23.

Eight Top Fuel qualifiers will also race at The Strip for a $100,000 prize
in the Budweiser Shootout, a special event held annually at the fall Las
Vegas event. This year's running will be held Saturday, Oct. 22. The
Shootout field is restricted to eight racers based on qualifying points
earned at the NHRA national events completed since the previous year's
Shootout. The top seven points earners are guaranteed a spot in the show;
the eighth position will be determined by lottery from the eighth through
15th qualifiers.

Doug earned the second most amount of Budweiser Shootout points over the
past year to guarantee his spot in the exclusive field. He is a two-time
champion of the special event (1998 and 2003).

Entering the Las Vegas event, the next to last event of 2005, Doug, driver
of the Mac Tools flagship dragster, sits in third place in POWERade
championship points, just three points behind second place holder Larry
Dixon. Tony Schumacher will clinch the 2005 Top Fuel championship by making
one qualifying attempt in Las Vegas.

Doug is the defending event champion at the ACDelco Las Vegas NHRA
Nationals. He defeated Morgan Lucas in last fall's final round at The Strip.
Doug also had a runner-up finish at the spring event in Las Vegas this year,
and he made a runner-up run in the spring of 2003. He won the low qualifier
award at both of the previous events mentioned. Doug holds the track record
for speed at The Strip, 335.57 (April 2004).

"We're concentrating on winning rounds and taking over second in the points
now," Doug said. "Congratulations to Tony and Alan [Johnson] and everyone
involved with that team.

"I would be lying if I said I'm not disappointed. We have had one of our
best years ever, but we just came up short in our goal of winning the
championship. We've won five races so far this year, and that's the most we've
ever won in a season, so we're very proud of that. Hopefully, we can get a
couple more in these last two races and end our great season on some high
notes. Maybe we can get another Shootout win too."

Two-time Top Fuel championship points runner-up (2003-2004) Doug, 41, is an
eight-year Top Fuel veteran and former USAC National Sprint Car Champion
(1994). He owns 24 NHRA national event trophies. His wins so far in 2005
were in Gainesville, Fla., Bristol, Tenn., Atlanta, Sonoma and Brainerd. His
five wins in 2005 is a career-best mark for the Ann Arbor, Mich., resident.

Dave Grubnic, driver of the newly decorated StriVectin-SD Top Fueler, is
looking for some Las Vegas luck before the weekend's events even start.
Dave, along with seven other of his Top Fuel comrades, will participate in a
special drawing to determine who will get the eighth and final spot in the
Budweiser Shootout field. Grubnic is the defending champion of the Shootout
and fervently wants to be able to defend his title.

"Man, I just have to get that last spot," Grubnic, who earned the eighth
most amount of Shootout points over the past year, exclaimed. "I really hate
it that it has come to getting into the Shootout with the luck of the draw
as our only shot, but hopefully we'll get the lucky pick and get our chance
to defend.

"We're also hoping to go some rounds on Sunday. We're in fourth in
[championship] points right now, but between us and Brandon [Bernstein] in
seventh there is only a 47-point gap, and that's not a lot. We need to go
rounds and get points in [Las] Vegas and Pomona (Calif., last 2005 event) to
hold fast to our fourth spot."

Grubnic and Kalitta Motorsports announced last week that they and
StriVectin-SD, a high-end cosmetic product, have signed a three-year primary
sponsorship agreement for Grubnic's dragster. Zantrex-3 will remain with
Kalitta Motorsports as an associate sponsor on all three dragsters.

The Budweiser Shootout Draw Party, hosted by NHRA announcer Bob Frey, will
be held at The Joint, inside the Hard Rock Hotel and Casino, at 7:00 p.m.,
Thursday, Oct. 20.

On Wednesday, Oct. 19, Grubnic will try his hand playing poker for charity
along with other NHRA stars at the Second Annual Speedway Children's
Charities Texas Hold'em Poker Tournament for the Las Vegas Chapter of
Speedway Children's Charities. The tournament will be held at The Club
showroom, inside The Cannery Hotel and Casino. The Cannery is located at
2121 East Craig Road, at the intersection of Craig Rd. and Losee Rd. The
tournament begins at 7:00 p.m.

Native Australian and current Ennis, Mont., resident Grubnic, 43, made
history May 29th in Topeka, Kans., by becoming the first non-North American
to win an NHRA Top Fuel national event. The win in Topeka was Grubnic's
first in his 11-year career.

Two-time Top Fuel World Champion (1994-1995) Scott Kalitta, driver of the
Mac Tools/Jesse James Top Fuel dragster, has a special, yet unfortunate,
reason for wanting to see win lights in Las Vegas. Scott's mother, Ms.
Marianne McGee of Florida, passed away Saturday, Oct. 15, after a three-year
battle with cancer. She was 64. Ms. McGee was just five days shy of her
birthday.

"Mom always had mixed emotions about me racing as any mom would," Scott
said. "All in all though, she was behind me racing because she felt like she
had to be. She followed me and the sport religiously and was always quick to
point out to me if I had done something good or something bad.

"It's going to be very hard to keep my mind on racing this weekend, but I
want to go out there and win one for mom. I really want to win the Shootout
and the race and double-up for her memory, but I'll be very happy with
either one."

If a driver wins the Budweiser Shootout on Saturday and then follows that
win with an ACDelco Las Vegas NHRA Nationals event win on Sunday, that
driver "doubles-up" and gets a $50,000 bonus from the NHRA.

Scott, Doug's cousin, earned the seventh most amount of Budweiser Shootout
points over the past year to get the final guaranteed spot in the field. He
won the special event in 1996.

Scott holds the track elapsed time record at The Strip, 4.472 (April 2004).
Scott was the No. 1 qualifier at both events in Las Vegas in 2004.

Scott, 43, won the opening event of the 2005 season in Pomona, Calif., in
February, and took the Top Fuel trophy in Joliet, Ill., in early June. He
has 18 (17 Top Fuel, 1 Funny Car) NHRA national event victories in his
24-year career. The Snead Island, Fla., resident is currently eighth in
championship points.

The ACDelco Las Vegas NHRA Nationals begins Friday, Oct. 21, for the Top
Fuel class with two qualifying sessions at 1:00 p.m. and 4:30 p.m. Round one
of the Budweiser Shootout (also a qualifying round) begins at 1:00 p.m.
Saturday. Round two of the Budweiser Shootout begins at 3:15 p.m. The final
qualifying session begins at 4:30 p.m. The final qualifying session will be
immediately followed by the Budweiser Shootout final round. The top sixteen
qualified cars will race Sunday in final eliminations beginning at 11:00
a.m.